Yesterday, the film by Dhondup Wangchen "Leaving Fear Behind" was screened in an event organised by Leonidas Donskis and the NGO International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) in the European Parliament in Brussels. This 25 minutes documentary by the self-taught Tibetan filmmaker reveals the personal tragedy of Dhondup Wangchen and the overall situation of human rights in Tibet. (Suite...)

In the first Strasbourg plenary session of 2014, the six month long Lithuanian Presidency of the EU Council officially finished. Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite presented the results of the Presidency term in a debate with Members of the European Parliament and in the presence of the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso. (Suite...)

During the second half of 2013 the MEP Leonidas Donskis signed a number of EP written declarations from various spheres, like culture, digital competence, health, fight with racism and other forms of hatred. The EP written declarations signed by more than a half of MEPs become the official EP position. (Suite...)

This week the Members of the European Parliament gathered in Strasbourg for the last time in 2013. Traditionally, in its December session the EP focuses on human rights, but this year only the vote on the Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World and on other human rights instruments took place in December. (Suite...)

"It is worth to raise a glass of champagne to celebrate the day when Lithuanian youth has a chance to spend the Friday morning with the world-famous human rights defenders", - said the MEP Leonidas Donskis closing the Sakharov conference in Vilnius on December 6. (Suite...)

Leonidas Donskis together with more than a hundred members of the European Parliament nominates the Russian human rights organisation "Memorial" for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. The international parliamentarian initiative coordinated by the Polish conservatives in the EP, was supported among others by the leaders of the biggest political groups in EP: (Suite...)